Friday November 5, 2010 at 3:01pm
Sheffield Star 5th November 2010The BBC1 programme puts modern-day shopkeepers in specially-created period shops in a Somerset town to see how they could have coped with trading in eras from 1870 to 1970. Pettits of Mexborough has been there and done that. The High Street shoe and leather goods shop has stood the test of time and this year celebrates its 150th anniversary. It is surviving the current recession but also the tough times from the past, such as the 1930s depression and the effects o....
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Tuesday November 2, 2010 at 12:57pm
OVER the past three years, life has been hard for many long-established family businesses in Yorkshire and some have succumbed to pressures brought on by the recession.Shops that have been the backbone of their communities have faltered, but in the tough South Yorkshire town of Mexborough a retail dynasty has consistently defied challenging economic conditions and continues to go from strength to strength.It has survived not only the current recession but also miners' strikes, the subsequent clo....
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